On 05/05/2020 17:26, Henk-Jaap Wagenaar wrote:
This is a straw man in regards to backwards compatibility. This particular
(sub)thread is about whether if this zip-is-strict either as a separate
name or a Boolean flag or some other flag of zip should be a built-in or be
in e.g. itertools.
It is not about breaking backwards compatibility (presumably by making it
the default behaviour of zip).
Except that that's part of the thinking involved in choosing a flag
instead of the usual new function. No one (I think) is claiming that we
should break backwards compatibility and default to strict=True, but
having the flag is a strong statement that length-checking is an
intrinsic part of zipping. I don't believe that's true, and in
consequence I think adding a flag is a mistake.
--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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